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{{short description|National association football team for Mandatory Palestine}}
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{{Infobox National football team
{{Infobox National football team
| Name = Mandatory Palestine
| Name = Mandatory Palestine
| Nickname = ''Eretz Israel''<br>(Land of Israel)
| Badge =
| date = 1934–1940
| Badge_size = 130px
| Badge = Mandatory Palestine national football team logo.png
| FIFA Trigramme =
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| Nickname = ''Eretz Israel'' <br> (Land of Israel)
| Association = [[Israel Football Association|Palestine Football Association]] (PFA){{sfn|Henshaw|1979|p=387}}
| Association = [[Israel Football Association|Palestine Football Association]] (PFA)
| Coach = [[Shimon Ratner]] (1934 WCQ)<br />[[Egon Pollak]] (1938 WCQ)<br />[[Arthur Baar]] (1940 Friendly)
| Confederation =
| Coach = [[Shimon Ratner]] (1934 WCQ)<br />[[Egon Pollak]] (1938 WCQ)<br />[[Arthur Baar]] (1940 Friendly)
| Captain = Avraham Reznik (1934–1938)<br />Pinhas Fiedler (1934)<br />Gdalyahu Fuchs (1938)<br />Werner Kaspi (1940)
| Most caps = [[Gdalyahu Fuchs]] (4)
| Captain =
| Most caps = [[Gdalyahu Fuchs]] (4)
| Top scorer = [[Werner Kaspi]] (2)
| Home Stadium = [[Palms Ground]]<br />[[Maccabi Ground, Tel Aviv|Maccabi Ground]]<br />[[Maccabiah Stadium]]
| Top scorer = [[Werner Kaspi]] (2)
| FIFA Trigramme = PAL
| Home Stadium = [[Hapoel Ground]], [[Jaffa]], [[Tel Aviv]] (1928)<br />[[Maccabiah Stadium]], [[Tel Aviv]] (1932–1948)
| FIFA Rank =
| Elo max = 60
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| Elo max date = March 1934
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| FIFA max date =
| Elo min date = April 1940
| First game = {{nowrap|{{fb|EGY|1922}} 7–1 {{fb-rt|PAL}}}}<br />([[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]; 16 March 1934)
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| Last game = {{nowrap|{{fb|PAL}} [[1940 Mandatory Palestine v Lebanon football match|5–1]] {{fb-rt|LBN|1920}}}}<br />([[Tel Aviv]], [[Mandatory Palestine]]; 27 April 1940)
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| Largest win = {{nowrap|{{fb|PAL}} [[1940 Mandatory Palestine v Lebanon football match|5–1]] {{fb-rt|LBN|1920}}}}<br />([[Tel Aviv]], [[Mandatory Palestine]]; 27 April 1940)
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The '''Mandatory Palestine national football team''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: منتخب فلسطين الانتدابية لكرة القدم, [[Hebrew]]: התאחדות ארץ ישראלית למשחק כדור-רגל, ''Hitachduth Eretz Yisraelit Lekhadur Regel''- lit. "The Land of Israel Association of Football") represented the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] in international [[Association football|football]] competitions<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html|title=British Mandate of Palestine Official Games 1934-1948|accessdate=20 July 2013|first1=Jean-Michel |last1=Cazal |first2=Yaniv |last2=Bleicher |publisher=RSSSF}}</ref> and was managed by the [[Israel Football Association|Palestine Football Association]].{{efn-ua|According to the Israel Football Association, the name of the association was "Eretz Israel Football Association".{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}} The [[Union of European Football Associations]] (UEFA) calls it the "Eretz Israel – Palestine Football Association".{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}} Regardless, this association should not be confused with the present-day [[Palestine Football Association]], which was founded in 1962.}}
The '''Mandatory Palestine national football team''', also known as the '''''Eretz Israel'' national football team''' ({{langx|he|נבחרת ארץ ישראל בכדורגל|Nivheret Eretz Yisrael Bekhadurgel|lit=Land of Israel national football team}}), represented the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] in international [[Association football|football]] competitions, and was managed by the [[Israel Football Association|Palestine Football Association]] ({{langx|he|התאחדות ארץ ישראלית למשחק כדור-רגל|Hitachduth Eretz Yisraelit Lekhadur Regel|lit=The Land of Israel Association of Football}}).{{efn|According to the Israel Football Association, the name of the association was "Eretz Israel Football Association".{{sfn|Henshaw|1979|p=387}}}}

The team was founded in 1928 by [[Yosef Yekutieli]], leader of the [[Jewish]] sports organisation [[Maccabi World Union]], under the newly formed "Palestine Football Association", so-named in order to qualify for membership of [[FIFA]] (which required teams to be representative of the population of their country). It achieved FIFA membership in 1929, despite in practice being an almost exclusively Jewish organisation at a time when Jews [[Demographic history of Palestine (region)|represented a minority of the country's population]]. In 1934 all Arabs involved in the organisation left, as they considered they were being used as a "fig leaf".<ref name="972m">{{Cite web|last=Mendel|first=Yoni|date=1 May 2015|title=The Palestinian soccer league: A microcosm of a national struggle|url=https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-soccer-league-gears-up-for-nailbiter-final/|access-date=14 May 2020|website=+972 Magazine|language=en-US|quote=The result was the birth of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) and the launch of the local league. It was not particularly equitable: Nine Jewish clubs and one British club (that of the British police) participated in the champions league, while the Arab clubs played only in the secondary league. Neither was the representation in the federation exceptionally fair: among the 15 members of the federation, 14 were Jewish and only one, the Jerusalemite referee Ibrahim Nusseibeh, was Arab. The inaugural meeting of the PFA, in 1928, was the first and last meeting which Nusseibeh attended. In 1934, in keeping with the prevailing segragationist trends in the country, the Arab football clubs decided they refuse to continue being the fig leaf within the framework of an overwhelmingly Jewish league, and left. A parallel, exclusively Arab football league was established a year later.|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308133743/https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-soccer-league-gears-up-for-nailbiter-final/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The team used to play in the [[Maccabiah Stadium]], [[Maccabi Ground, Tel Aviv|Maccabi Ground]] and [[Palms Ground]], all three located in [[Tel Aviv]]. Mandatory Palestine played five official games (four [[FIFA World Cup qualification|FIFA World Cup qualifiers]], and one [[1940 Mandatory Palestine v Lebanon football match|friendly]]), before it officially became the [[Israel national football team|national team of Israel]] in 1948.


== History ==
== History ==
[[File:נבחרת ארץ ישראל בביקור בקהיר.jpg|left|thumb|Mandatory Palestine during its tour in Egypt in 1931.]]
[[File:נבחרת ארץ ישראל בביקור בקהיר.jpg|left|thumb|Mandatory Palestine during its tour in Egypt in 1931.]]
Football was introduced to Palestine by the British military during its [[Occupied Enemy Territory Administration|occupation of the territory]] in [[World War I]]. After the war, the sport's development was continued by "[[European Jews]] who had been exposed to soccer in their native countries".{{sfn|Henshaw|1979|p=387}} The Palestine Football Association was founded in August 1928 and applied for membership in [[FIFA]]. It was accepted to FIFA on 6 June 1929 as the Palestine Football Association, following an application by the Jewish [[Maccabi World Union]].<ref>Foundation and Affiliation year in [https://web.archive.org/web/20071120143204/http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=isr/ Association Information of Israel] at [https://www.fifa.com FIFA official website]</ref><ref>Foundation and FIFA affiliation years on [http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=isr association information of Israel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006074514/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=isr/ |date=6 October 2014 }} at [[UEFA]] [http://www.uefa.com website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102101645/http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/index.html |date=2 November 2017 }}</ref> It was the first of 14 sports organisations which absorbed hundreds of leading sportsmen who immigrated in the wake of [[antisemitism]] in Europe.<ref>{{cite news|last=Griver|first=Simon|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfa-archive/1999/pages/sports%20in%20israel.aspx|title=Sports in Israel|date=June 1999|access-date=20 July 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622150155/http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfa-archive/1999/pages/sports%20in%20israel.aspx|archive-date=22 June 2013|publisher=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs}}</ref>
Football was introduced to Palestine by the British military during its [[Occupied Enemy Territory Administration|occupation of the territory]] in [[World War I]]. After the war, the sport's development was continued by "[[European Jews]] who had been exposed to soccer in their native countries".{{sfn|Henshaw|1979|p=387}} [[Palestinian Arabs]], specifically those of [[Islam]]ic beliefs, refrained from participating in football's early formation due to their resistance to "[[Western culture|Western cultural]] institutions".{{sfn|Henshaw|1979|p=386}}


By FIFA rules, the association had to represent all of Palestine's population, and it made formal claims to that effect. In practice, it was dominated by Jewish players and executives, despite [[Palestinian Arab]]s forming the majority of the population.{{Sfn|Sorek|2003|p=417–437}}
Palestine Football Association was founded in August 1928 and applied for membership in [[FIFA]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}} It was accepted to FIFA on 6 June 1929 as the Eretz Israel Football Association.{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}} It was the first of 14 sports organizations which absorbed hundreds of leading sportsmen who immigrated in the wake of [[antisemitism]] in Europe.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfa-archive/1999/pages/sports%20in%20israel.aspx|title=Sports in Israel|date=June 1999|accessdate=20 July 2013|publisher=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |first=Simon |last=Griver}}</ref>


According to Issam Khalidi, "the Jewish leadership" of the association systematically limited Arab participation by ensuring Jewish clubs constituted its majority, imposing [[Hebrew]] for official communication, and adding the [[Zionism|Zionist]] flag in its logo.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Khalidi|first=Issam|date=Spring 2014|title=Sports and Aspirations: Football in Palestine, 1900–1948|pages=74–89|work=Jerusalem Quarterly|issue=58|url=https://oldwebsite.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/Sports%20and%20Aspirations%20%20JQ-58-7.pdf|access-date=14 May 2020|quote=Immediately after being accepted into FIFA, the Jewish leadership of the PFA set about ensuring a majority of Jewish clubs in its membership. The Hebrew language was imposed and the Zionist flag incorporated into the federation's logo. By 1934, the dominance of Zionist officials meant that Arab clubs had no say in the running of the association, despite Arabs comprising over three-quarters of Palestine's population.|archive-date=22 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722211819/https://oldwebsite.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/Sports%20and%20Aspirations%20%20JQ-58-7.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Consequently, the Palestinian Arab players boycotted the national team and, in 1934, the Arab clubs left the association to form the General Palestinian Sports Association.<ref name="972m" />{{Sfn|Sorek|2003|p=417–437}}{{efn|Richard Henshaw's encyclopaedia also noted that "Islamic beliefs throughout the Arab world resisted Western cultural institutions such as soccer until well after World War II, by which time Arab participation in the development of Israeli soccer was nearly impossible."{{sfn|Henshaw|1979|p=386}}}}
Mandatory Palestine end up playing five international games before the end of the British Mandate in 1948 which resulted in Israel independence. During those five games, the national team fielded only Jewish players. Three anthems were played before each match: the British "[[God Save the Queen]]", the Jewish (and future Israeli) "[[Hatikvah]]" and the opposing team's anthem.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rsssf.com/tablesp/pales-intres-det.html|title=Palestine - International Results - Details|accessdate=20 July 2013|first=Hassanin |last=Mubarak |publisher=RSSSF}}</ref>


Mandatory Palestine played five international games before the end of the British Mandate in 1948 which resulted in Israel's independence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/isra-intres30.html|title=British Mandate of Palestine Official Games 1934–1948|last1=Cazal|first1=Jean-Michel|last2=Bleicher|first2=Yaniv|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|access-date=20 July 2013|archive-date=1 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001154352/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/isra-intres30.html|url-status=live}}</ref> During those five games, the national team fielded only Jewish players. Three anthems were played before each match: the British "[[God Save the King]]", the Jewish (and future Israeli) "[[Hatikvah]]" and the opposing team's anthem.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/pales-intres-det.html|title=Palestine – International Results – Details|access-date=20 July 2013|first=Hassanin|last=Mubarak|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|archive-date=13 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013140042/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/pales-intres-det.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Uniform ==


In 1948 the team officially became the [[Israel national football team|national team of Israel]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 June 2011 |title=Statistical Kit: Preliminary Draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil |url=https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/52463a2cc01d135/original/c91tgtfetbsmneex1vbc-pdf.pdf |access-date=21 December 2020 |publisher=[[FIFA]] |page=53 |quote=A Jewish delegation from Palestine (then a British mandate) played at the qualifying games for 1934 & 1938. It was the first Jewish national team, and as such the forerunner of Israel. |archive-date=19 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719092004/https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/52463a2cc01d135/original/c91tgtfetbsmneex1vbc-pdf.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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== Stadium ==
== Players ==
=== 1934 FIFA World Cup qualification ===
Coaches: {{flagicon|Austria}} [[Egon Pollak]] and {{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Shimon Ratner]]<ref name="squad">{{Cite web|title=British Mandate of Palestine Official Games 1934–1948|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/isra-intres30.html|last1=Cazal|first1=Jean-Michel|last2=Bleicher|first2=Yaniv|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|access-date=14 May 2020|archive-date=1 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001154352/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/isra-intres30.html|url-status=live}}</ref>


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=== 1938 FIFA World Cup qualification ===
Coach: {{flagicon|Austria}} [[Egon Pollak]]<ref name=squad />

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{{nat fs player no caps|no=8 |pos=FW|name=[[Yona Stern]]|age=|club=[[Hapoel Haifa F.C.|Hapoel Haifa]]|clubnat=PAL}}
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{{nat fs player no caps|no=10|pos=FW|name=[[Jerry Beit haLevi]]|age=|club=[[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]]|clubnat=PAL}}
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=== 1940 friendly ===
Coach: {{flagicon|Austria}} [[Arthur Baar]]<ref name=squad />

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== FIFA World Cup record ==
== FIFA World Cup record ==
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!colspan=9|[[FIFA World Cup|FIFA World Cup record]]
! colspan="10" |Mandatory Palestine's FIFA World Cup record
!width=1% rowspan=25|
| rowspan="25" width="1%" |
!colspan=6|FIFA World Cup Qualification record
! colspan="7" |Qualification record
|-
|-
!Host(s) and year
!Year
!Round
!Round
!Position
!{{Tooltip|Pos|Position}}
!{{Tooltip|Pld|Games played}}
!{{Tooltip|Pld|Games played}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
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!{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
!{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
!{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
!{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
!Squad
!Outcome
!{{Tooltip|Pld|Games played}}
!{{Tooltip|Pld|Games played}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
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!{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
!{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
|-
|-
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[1930 FIFA World Cup|1930]]
!{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[1930 FIFA World Cup|1930]]
|colspan=8|Did Not Enter
| colspan="9" |''did not participate''
| colspan="7" |''did not participate''
|–
|–
|–
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== Results ==
=== 1934 World Cup Qualification ===
{{footballbox collapsible
{{footballbox collapsible
|format = 1
|date =16 March 1934
|date = 16 March 1934
|round = ''[[1934 FIFA World Cup qualification|1934 WCQ]]''
|round = [[1934 FIFA World Cup qualification]]
|team1 = [[Egypt national football team|Egypt]] {{flagicon|Egypt|1922}}
|team1 = {{fb-rt|EGY|1922}}
|team2 = {{flagicon|British Mandate for Palestine}} Palestine, British Mandate
|team2 = {{fb|PAL}}
|score = 7 – 1
|score = 7–1
|report = [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html#1934_03_16 Report]
|report = http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html#1934_03_16
|goals1 = [[Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetsh|Mokhtar]] {{goal|11||35||51}}<br />[[Mostafa Taha|Taha]] {{goal|21||79}}<br />[[Mohamed Latif|Latif]] {{goal|43||87}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = [[Avraham Nudelmann|Nudelmann]] {{goal|61}}
* [[Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetsh|Mokhtar]] {{goal|11||35||51}}
|location = [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]
* [[Mostafa Taha|Taha]] {{goal|21||79}}
|stadium = [[British Army Ground]]
* [[Mohamed Latif|Latif]] {{goal|43||87}}
|goals2 =
* [[Avraham Nudelman|Nudelman]] {{goal|61}}
|location = [[Cairo]], Egypt
|stadium = [[British Army Ground]]
|attendance = 13,000
|attendance = 13,000
|referee = [[Stanley Wells]] ([[The Football Association|England]])
|referee = [[Stanley Wells (referee)|Stanley Wells]] ([[The Football Association|England]])
|result = L
|result = L
|stack=n
}}
}}
----
{{footballbox collapsible
{{footballbox collapsible
|format = 1
|date =6 April 1934
|date = 6 April 1934
|round = ''[[1934 FIFA World Cup qualification|1934 WCQ]]''
|round = [[1934 FIFA World Cup qualification]]
|team1 = Palestine, British Mandate {{flagicon|British Mandate for Palestine}}
|team1 = {{fb-rt|PAL}}
|team2 = {{flagicon|Egypt|1922}} [[Egypt national football team|Egypt]]
|team2 = {{fb|EGY|1922}}
|score = 1 – 4
|score = 1–4
|report = [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html#1934_04_06 Report]
|report = http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html#1934_04_06
|goals1 = [[Yohanan Sukenik|Sukenik]] {{goal|54}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = [[Mohamed Latif|Latif]] {{goal|2}}<br />[[Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetsh|Mokhtar]] {{goal|7||22}}<br />[[Abdulrahman Fawzi|Fawzi]] {{goal|35}}
* [[Yohanan Sukenik|Sukenik]] {{goal|54}}
|location = [[Tel Aviv]], [[Mandatory Palestine]]
|goals2 =
|stadium = [[Hapoel Ground]]
* [[Mohamed Latif|Latif]] {{goal|2}}
* [[Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetsh|Mokhtar]] {{goal|7||22}}
* [[Abdulrahman Fawzi|Fawzi]] {{goal|35}}
|location = [[Tel Aviv]], Mandatory Palestine
|stadium = [[Palms Ground]]
|attendance = 8,000
|attendance = 8,000
|referee = [[Frederick John Goodsby]] ([[The Football Association|England]])
|referee = [[Frederick John Goodsby]] ([[The Football Association|England]])
|result = L
|result = L
|stack=n
}}
}}
'''Egypt''' qualified for the final round.

=== 1938 World Cup Qualification ===

{{footballbox_collapsible
{{footballbox_collapsible
|format = 1
|date = 22 January 1938
|date = 22 January 1938
|round = ''[[1938 FIFA World Cup qualification|1938 WCQ]]''
|round = [[1938 FIFA World Cup qualification]]
|team1 = Palestine, British Mandate {{flagicon|British Mandate for Palestine}}
|team1 = {{fb-rt|PAL}}
|report = [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html#1938_01_22 Report]
|report = http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html#1938_01_22
|score = 1 – 3
|score = 1–3
|team2 = {{fb|Greece|old}}
|goals1 = [[Peri Neufeld|Neufeld]] {{goal|36}}
|team2 = {{fb|GRE|old}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = [[Kleanthis Vikelidis|Vikelidis]] {{goal|15||30}}<br />[[Antonis Migiakis|Migiakis]] {{goal|73}}
* [[Peri Neufeld|Neufeld]] {{goal|36}}
|location = [[Tel Aviv]], [[Mandatory Palestine]]
|goals2 =
|stadium = [[Maccabiah Stadium]]
* [[Kleanthis Vikelidis|Vikelidis]] {{goal|15||30}}
* [[Antonis Migiakis|Migiakis]] {{goal|73}}
|location = [[Tel Aviv]], Mandatory Palestine
|stadium = [[Maccabi Ground, Tel Aviv|Maccabi Ground]]
|attendance = 8,000
|attendance = 8,000
|referee = [[Mohammed Youssef]] ([[Egyptian Football Association|Egypt]])
|referee = [[Mohammed Youssef]] ([[Egyptian Football Association|Egypt]])
|result = L
|result = L
|stack=n
}}
}}
----
{{footballbox_collapsible
{{footballbox_collapsible
|format = 1
|date = 20 February 1938
|date = 20 February 1938
|round = ''[[1938 FIFA World Cup qualification|1938 WCQ]]''
|round = [[1938 FIFA World Cup qualification]]
|team1 = {{fb-rt|GRE|old}}
|team1 = {{fb-rt|GRE|old}}
|report = [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html#1938_02_22 Report]
|report = http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html#1938_02_22
|score = 1 – 0
|score = 1–0
|team2 = {{flagicon|British Mandate for Palestine}} Palestine, British Mandate
|goals1 = [[Kleanthis Vikelidis|Vikelidis]] {{goal|88|pen.}}
|team2 = {{fb|PAL}}
|goals1 = [[Kleanthis Vikelidis|Vikelidis]] {{goal|88|pen.}}
|location = [[Athens]], [[Greece]]
|location = [[Athens]], Greece
|stadium = [[Stadio Leoforos Alexandras]]
|stadium = [[Stadio Leoforos Alexandras]]
|attendance = 12,000
|attendance = 12,000
|referee = [[Mika Popovic]] ([[Football Association of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]])
|referee = [[Mika Popović]] ([[Football Association of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]])
|result = L
|result = L
|stack=n
}}
}}
{{football box collapsible

|format = 1
'''Greece''' qualified for the final round.
|id = Mandatory Palestine v Lebanon

|date = 27 April 1940
== Squad ==
|time = 16:00 [[UTC+03:00|UTC+3]]

|round = [[Exhibition game|Friendly]]
=== Last squad ===
|score = [[1940 Mandatory Palestine v Lebanon football match|5–1]]

|report = http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html#1940_04_27
=== Call-ups ===
|team1 = {{fb-rt|PAL}}

|team2 = {{fb|LBN|1920}}
=== Notable players ===
|goals1 =

*[[Herbert Meitner|Meitner]] {{goal|2}}
== Managers ==
*[[Avraham Schneiderovitz|Schneiderovitz]] {{goal|11|p}}

*[[Gaul Machlis|Machlis]] {{goal|32}}
{{Empty section|date=August 2013}}
*[[Werner Kaspi|Kaspi]] {{goal|40||60}}

|goals2 =
== Fixtures and records ==
*[[Camille Cordahi|Cordahi]] {{goal|50}}

|stadium = [[Maccabiah Stadium]]
=== Player records ===
|location = [[Tel Aviv]], Mandatory Palestine

|attendance = 10,000
=== Friendlies ===
|referee = [[John Blackwell (referee)|John Blackwell]] ([[The Football Association|England]])
{{footballbox collapsible
|result = W
|date =27 April 1940
|round = ''[[Exhibition game|International Friendly]]''
|team1 = Palestine, British Mandate {{flagicon|British Mandate for Palestine}}
|team2 = [[File:Lebanese French flag.svg|22px]] [[Lebanon national football team|Greater Lebanon]]
|score = 5 – 1
|report = [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/isra-intres30.html#1940_04_27 Report]
|goals1 = [[Herbert Meitner|Meitner]] {{goal|2}}<br />[[Avraham Schneiderovitz|Schneiderovitz]] {{goal|11}}<br />[[Gaul Machlis|Machlis]] {{goal|32}}<br />[[Werner Kaspi|Kaspi]] {{goal|40||60}}
|goals2 = Kamil {{goal|50}}
|location = [[Tel Aviv]], [[Mandatory Palestine]]
|stadium = [[Maccabiah Stadium]]
|attendance = 9,000
|referee = Blackwell ([[The Football Association|England]])
|result = W
|stack=n
}}
}}


== See also ==
== See also ==
{{portal|Association football}}
{{portal|Association football|Israel}}
*[[Football in Israel]]
*[[Football in Israel]]
*[[Football in the Palestinian territories]]
*[[History of the Israel national football team]]
*[[North Vietnam national football team]]
*[[Israel national football team]]
*[[South Yemen national football team]]
*[[Palestine national football team]]
*[[South Vietnam national football team]]


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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{{notelist}}


== References ==
== References ==
{{reflist|20em}}
{{reflist}}


== Bibliography ==
== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book | last = Henshaw | first = Richard | title = The Encyclopedia of World Soccer | year = 1979 | publisher = New Republic Books | location = Washington, D.C. | isbn = 0-915220-34-2 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo0000hens_z1k7 }}
*{{Cite journal|last=Sorek|first=Tamir|title=Palestinian Nationalism Has Left the Field: A Shortened History of Arab Soccer in Israel.|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|year=2003|volume=35|pages=417–437|issue=3|doi=10.1017/S0020743803000175|jstor=3880202|s2cid=143912280 }}


{{Israel national football team}}
* {{cite book | last = Henshaw | first = Richard | title = The Encyclopedia of World Soccer | year = 1979 | publisher = New Republic Books | location = Washington, D.C. | ref = harv | isbn = 0-915220-34-2 }}
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{{Mandatory Palestine topics}}
{{Defunct national football teams}}


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Mandatory Palestine
1934–1940
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Eretz Israel
(Land of Israel)
AssociationPalestine Football Association (PFA)
Head coachShimon Ratner (1934 WCQ)
Egon Pollak (1938 WCQ)
Arthur Baar (1940 Friendly)
CaptainAvraham Reznik (1934–1938)
Pinhas Fiedler (1934)
Gdalyahu Fuchs (1938)
Werner Kaspi (1940)
Most capsGdalyahu Fuchs (4)
Top scorerWerner Kaspi (2)
Home stadiumPalms Ground
Maccabi Ground
Maccabiah Stadium
FIFA codePAL
First colours
First international
 Egypt 7–1 Mandatory Palestine 
(Cairo, Egypt; 16 March 1934)
Last international
 Mandatory Palestine 5–1 Lebanon 
(Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine; 27 April 1940)
Biggest win
 Mandatory Palestine 5–1 Lebanon 
(Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine; 27 April 1940)
Biggest defeat
 Egypt 7–1 Mandatory Palestine 
(Cairo, Egypt; 16 March 1934)

The Mandatory Palestine national football team, also known as the Eretz Israel national football team (Hebrew: נבחרת ארץ ישראל בכדורגל, romanized: Nivheret Eretz Yisrael Bekhadurgel, lit. 'Land of Israel national football team'), represented the British Mandate of Palestine in international football competitions, and was managed by the Palestine Football Association (Hebrew: התאחדות ארץ ישראלית למשחק כדור-רגל, romanized: Hitachduth Eretz Yisraelit Lekhadur Regel, lit. 'The Land of Israel Association of Football').[a]

The team was founded in 1928 by Yosef Yekutieli, leader of the Jewish sports organisation Maccabi World Union, under the newly formed "Palestine Football Association", so-named in order to qualify for membership of FIFA (which required teams to be representative of the population of their country). It achieved FIFA membership in 1929, despite in practice being an almost exclusively Jewish organisation at a time when Jews represented a minority of the country's population. In 1934 all Arabs involved in the organisation left, as they considered they were being used as a "fig leaf".[2]

The team used to play in the Maccabiah Stadium, Maccabi Ground and Palms Ground, all three located in Tel Aviv. Mandatory Palestine played five official games (four FIFA World Cup qualifiers, and one friendly), before it officially became the national team of Israel in 1948.

History

Mandatory Palestine during its tour in Egypt in 1931.

Football was introduced to Palestine by the British military during its occupation of the territory in World War I. After the war, the sport's development was continued by "European Jews who had been exposed to soccer in their native countries".[1] The Palestine Football Association was founded in August 1928 and applied for membership in FIFA. It was accepted to FIFA on 6 June 1929 as the Palestine Football Association, following an application by the Jewish Maccabi World Union.[3][4] It was the first of 14 sports organisations which absorbed hundreds of leading sportsmen who immigrated in the wake of antisemitism in Europe.[5]

By FIFA rules, the association had to represent all of Palestine's population, and it made formal claims to that effect. In practice, it was dominated by Jewish players and executives, despite Palestinian Arabs forming the majority of the population.[6]

According to Issam Khalidi, "the Jewish leadership" of the association systematically limited Arab participation by ensuring Jewish clubs constituted its majority, imposing Hebrew for official communication, and adding the Zionist flag in its logo.[7] Consequently, the Palestinian Arab players boycotted the national team and, in 1934, the Arab clubs left the association to form the General Palestinian Sports Association.[2][6][b]

Mandatory Palestine played five international games before the end of the British Mandate in 1948 which resulted in Israel's independence.[9] During those five games, the national team fielded only Jewish players. Three anthems were played before each match: the British "God Save the King", the Jewish (and future Israeli) "Hatikvah" and the opposing team's anthem.[10]

In 1948 the team officially became the national team of Israel.[11]

Players

1934 FIFA World Cup qualification

Coaches: Austria Egon Pollak and Poland Shimon Ratner[12]

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Club
1GK Willy Berger Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
2DF Pinhas Fiedler Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Hashmonayim Jerusalem
2DF Avraham Reznik (Captain) Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF David Weinberg Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Zalman Friedmann Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
3MF Gdalyahu Fuchs Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Haifa
3MF Paul Kastenbaum Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
3MF Perry Kraus Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
3MF Haim Reich Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Yohanan Sukenik Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
4FW Amnon Harlap Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
4FW Avraham Nudelman Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
4FW Yaacov Zelibanski Mandatory Palestine
Yaacov Levi-Meir Mandatory Palestine

1938 FIFA World Cup qualification

Coach: Austria Egon Pollak[12]

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Club
1 1GK Julius Klein Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Haifa
1 1GK Israel Elsner [he] Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
2 2DF Avraham Beit haLevi Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
3 2DF Avraham Reznik (Captain) Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
4 3MF Yosef Libermann Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
5 3MF Gdalyahu Fuchs Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Haifa
5 3MF Yohanan Sukenik Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
6 3MF Menahem Mirmovich Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
7 4FW Mila Ginzburg Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
8 4FW Shuka Brashedski Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Haifa
8 4FW Yona Stern Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Haifa
9 4FW Peri Neufeld Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
10 4FW Jerry Beit haLevi Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
10 4FW Gaul Machlis Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
11 4FW Avraham Nudelman Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
11 4FW Natan Panz Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv

1940 friendly

Coach: Austria Arthur Baar[12]

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Club
1GK Binyamin Mizrahi Mandatory Palestine Beitar Tel Aviv
1GK Asi Asher Mandatory Palestine Hakoah Tel Aviv
2DF Shalom Shalomzon Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF Yaacov Breir Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Haifa
2DF Lonia Dvorin Mandatory Palestine Beitar Tel Aviv
3MF Zalman "Dzampa" Friedmann Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
3MF Zvi Fuchs Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Haim Reich Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
4FW Herbert Meitner Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Rishon
4FW Zvi "Doctor" Erlich Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Tel Aviv
4FW Werner Kaspi (Captain) Mandatory Palestine Beitar Tel Aviv
4FW Avraham Schneiderowitz Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Nes Tziona
4FW Gaul Machlis Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Peri Neufeld Mandatory Palestine Maccabi Tel Aviv

FIFA World Cup record

Mandatory Palestine's FIFA World Cup record Qualification record
Host(s) and year Round Pos Pld W D L GF GA Squad Outcome Pld W D L GF GA
Uruguay 1930 did not participate did not participate
Italy 1934 did not qualify 2nd of 2 2 0 0 2 2 11
France 1938 2nd of 2 2 0 0 2 1 4
1950–present See Israel national football team See Israel national football team
Total Best: N/A 0/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 — Total 4 0 0 4 3 15

Results

16 March 1934 1934 FIFA World Cup qualification Egypt  7–1  Mandatory Palestine Cairo, Egypt
  • Mokhtar 11', 35', 51'
  • Taha 21', 79'
  • Latif 43', 87'
 Report
Stadium: British Army Ground
Attendance: 13,000
Referee: Stanley Wells (England)
6 April 1934 1934 FIFA World Cup qualification Mandatory Palestine  1–4  Egypt Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
 Report
Stadium: Palms Ground
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Frederick John Goodsby (England)
22 January 1938 1938 FIFA World Cup qualification Mandatory Palestine  1–3  Greece Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
 Report
Stadium: Maccabi Ground
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Mohammed Youssef (Egypt)
20 February 1938 1938 FIFA World Cup qualification Greece  1–0  Mandatory Palestine Athens, Greece
Vikelidis 88' (pen.) Report Stadium: Stadio Leoforos Alexandras
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Mika Popović (Yugoslavia)
27 April 1940 Friendly Mandatory Palestine  5–1  Lebanon Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
16:00 UTC+3
Report
Stadium: Maccabiah Stadium
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: John Blackwell (England)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ According to the Israel Football Association, the name of the association was "Eretz Israel Football Association".[1]
  2. ^ Richard Henshaw's encyclopaedia also noted that "Islamic beliefs throughout the Arab world resisted Western cultural institutions such as soccer until well after World War II, by which time Arab participation in the development of Israeli soccer was nearly impossible."[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Henshaw 1979, p. 387.
  2. ^ a b Mendel, Yoni (1 May 2015). "The Palestinian soccer league: A microcosm of a national struggle". +972 Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 14 May 2020. The result was the birth of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) and the launch of the local league. It was not particularly equitable: Nine Jewish clubs and one British club (that of the British police) participated in the champions league, while the Arab clubs played only in the secondary league. Neither was the representation in the federation exceptionally fair: among the 15 members of the federation, 14 were Jewish and only one, the Jerusalemite referee Ibrahim Nusseibeh, was Arab. The inaugural meeting of the PFA, in 1928, was the first and last meeting which Nusseibeh attended. In 1934, in keeping with the prevailing segragationist trends in the country, the Arab football clubs decided they refuse to continue being the fig leaf within the framework of an overwhelmingly Jewish league, and left. A parallel, exclusively Arab football league was established a year later.
  3. ^ Foundation and Affiliation year in Association Information of Israel at FIFA official website
  4. ^ Foundation and FIFA affiliation years on association information of Israel Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine at UEFA website Archived 2 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Griver, Simon (June 1999). "Sports in Israel". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  6. ^ a b Sorek 2003, p. 417–437.
  7. ^ Khalidi, Issam (Spring 2014). "Sports and Aspirations: Football in Palestine, 1900–1948" (PDF). Jerusalem Quarterly. No. 58. pp. 74–89. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 July 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020. Immediately after being accepted into FIFA, the Jewish leadership of the PFA set about ensuring a majority of Jewish clubs in its membership. The Hebrew language was imposed and the Zionist flag incorporated into the federation's logo. By 1934, the dominance of Zionist officials meant that Arab clubs had no say in the running of the association, despite Arabs comprising over three-quarters of Palestine's population.
  8. ^ Henshaw 1979, p. 386.
  9. ^ Cazal, Jean-Michel; Bleicher, Yaniv. "British Mandate of Palestine Official Games 1934–1948". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  10. ^ Mubarak, Hassanin. "Palestine – International Results – Details". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 13 October 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  11. ^ "Statistical Kit: Preliminary Draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil" (PDF). FIFA. 28 June 2011. p. 53. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 July 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2020. A Jewish delegation from Palestine (then a British mandate) played at the qualifying games for 1934 & 1938. It was the first Jewish national team, and as such the forerunner of Israel.
  12. ^ a b c Cazal, Jean-Michel; Bleicher, Yaniv. "British Mandate of Palestine Official Games 1934–1948". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

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